Anthony Heald

He had a prominent role as a troubled psychic in The X-Files episode "Closure".

• Born — 25 August 1944 • Birthplace — New Rochelle, New York, U.S. • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1983–present • Children — 2 • Education — Michigan State University

Heald was born on August 25, 1944, in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in Massapequa, New York. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1970.

Heald has worked extensively on Broadway and has been twice nominated for the Tony Award for his work as Lord Evelyn Oakleigh in Anything Goes (1988) and Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion! (1995). He also appeared in McNally's The Lisbon Traviata (1989), Inherit the Wind (1998), Deep Rising (1998), and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991). Heald has recorded audio books on tape, including works as varied as Where the Red Fern Grows, The New York Times bestsellers such as The Pelican Brief, Jurassic Park and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Moby-Dick, several works by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, as well as a sizable number of titles in the Star Wars audio book library. On television, Heald made appearances in shows including Miami Vice ("The Prodigal Son"), Law & Order ("The Troubles" and "Virtue"), The X-Files ("Closure"), and the Cheers series finale ("One for the Road"). He later appeared on the Cheers spin-off Frasier. He also played vice principal Scott Guber in David E. Kelley's Boston Public (2000–2004). Heald also had a recurring role as Judge Cooper on Kelley's The Practice and Boston Legal. In film, Heald appeared as Hannibal Lecter's jailer, Dr. Frederick Chilton, in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Red Dragon (2002). He also appeared as different characters in three adaptations of John Grisham best-sellers: a villainous lawyer in The Pelican Brief (1993), an FBI Agent in The Client (1994), and a psychiatrist in A Time to Kill (1996). He also played a government agent posing as an acting student in Outrageous Fortune (1987), George Lazan in Postcards from the Edge (1990), and an FBI Mystique Interrogator in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). Heald taught acting in Lansing, Michigan, for four years.

Heald lives in Ashland, Oregon, with his wife Robin (daughter of violist Karen Tuttle) and children Zoe and Dylan. He has converted to Judaism, his wife's faith. He regularly performs in productions of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. During the 2010 season of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Heald played Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1985 — Miami Vice — Commander René — Episode: "The Prodigal Son" • Spenser: For Hire — The Doorman — Episode: "No Room at the Inn" • 1986 — Fresno — Kevin Kensington — 6 episodes • Tales from the Darkside — Englebert Ames — Episode: "Comet Watch" • Kay O'Brien — Bert Hammond — Episode: "Behind Closed Doors" • Guiding Light — Mallory — Episode: #1.10055 • A Case of Deadly Force — Dave O'Brian — TV movie • 1987 — Crime Story — Rojer Jankowski — Episode: "The Battle of Las Vegas" • 1990 — Against the Law — Grainger — Episode: "Where the Truth Lies" • 1991 — CBS Schoolbreak Special — Dr. Gil Morris — Episode: "Abby, My Love" • 1991, 1994 — Law & Order — Councilman Spencer Talbert / Ian O'Connell — Episodes: "The Troubles" (1991) and "Virtue" (1994) • 1993 — Class of '96 — Professor Davis — Episode: "They Shoot Baskets, Don't They" • Cheers — Kevin — Episode: "One for the Road" • 1994 — Ghostwriter — Harold Wentwood — Episode: "A Crime of Two Cities: Part One" • Murder, She Wrote — Bob Kendall — Episode: "To Kill a Legend" • Under Suspicion — Martin Fox — 2 episodes • 1995 — One Life to Live — Quilligan — Episode: #1.6998 • New York News — Episode: "You Thought the Pope Was Something" • 1996 — Poltergeist: The Legacy — Damon Ballard — Episode: "Sins of the Father" • 1997 — Cosby — President's Aide — Episode: "Guess Whose President Is Coming to Dinner" • Liberty! The American Revolution — Philip Vickers Fithian — 6 episodes • 2000 — The X-Files — Harold Piller — Episode: "Closure" • Frasier — Corkmaster — Episode: "Whine Club" • 2000–2001 — The Practice — Judge Wallace Cooper / Scott Guber — 3 episodes • 2000–2004 — Boston Public — Scott Guber — 81 episodes • 2002 — Benjamin Franklin — Jonathan L. Austin — 3 episodes • 2004 — Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman — Simon (uncredited) — TV movie • 2005 — Numbers — Walt Merrick — Episode: "Pilot" • NCIS — Guyman Purcell — Episode: "An Eye for an Eye" • According to Jim — Reverend Steven — Episode: "Wedding Bell Blues" • 2005–2008 — Boston Legal — Judge Harvey Cooper — 8 episodes • 2006 — Crossing Jordan — Attorney McBride — Episode: "The Elephant in the Room" • The Closer — Howard Pierce — Episode: "Heroic Measures" • 2013 — Monday Mornings — Mitch Tompkins — 4 episodes • 2014 — Sam & Cat — Dr. Slarm — Episode: "#SuperPsycho" • 2024 — A Man in Full — Judge Taylor — 4 episodes

Anthony Heald is recorded as having received Theatre World Award.